This deploying printers with Active Directory video, covers three methods of deploying printers with AD. It follows along in the 70-410 series and the ExamRef book for objective 2.2. In this video I will cover deploying printers with GPO via the Print Management console. We will further investigate the problems associated with deploying a printer using the Print Management console. We will also cover deployment of printers via GPO and preferences. I further cover item level targeting which overcomes some problems. We also examine how to setup and use location based printing also known as printer location tracking with Active Directory. I explain how to setup the location schema in Active Directory Sites and Services for Sites and Subnets as well as how printer location tracking works and what the user will expect to see.

Note: disregard the Sales printer disappearing at 17:40, it was not part of the video… I ran into issues and the fix was rebooting the client machine to fix it… I edited out that part to save you from my frustration and forgot I used a different user to logon with.

I create the users for the various labs via a PowerShell script - 0:30

A quick tour of Active Directory for the lab - 0:50

Beginning of deploy printer with Active Directory through the Print Management console - 1:25

Quick creation of printers for the lab - 2:05

Creation of the Group Policy Object for deployment of printers with AD - 2:25

How to deploy a printer using the Print Management console - 3:06

Testing deployment a printer using the Print Management console - 4:28

Problems with deploying a printer using the Print Management console - 4:48

How to deploy printers using the GPO preferences method - 6:05

How to use Item level targeting with the GPO preferences method - 7:10

Testing of the GPO preferences method and item level targeting for the sales users - 8:00

Testing of the GPO preferences method and item level targeting for the tech users - 9:01

How to use Printer Location Tracking - 9:35

Enabling the GPO setting for the Pre-populate printer search location test - 10:43

Setup of Active Directory Sites and Services for the location schema - 12:04

Setup of printers for the location based off of the location schema - 14:20

A quick example of what location tracking does for us during configuration - 16:46

I explain how printer location tracking will work - 17:45

What the client will see when you use printer location tracking and AD - 17:40

Deploying Printers with the Print Management Console
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...

GP Preferences: Add a new printer, set as default
http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolic...

Printer Location Tracking
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...